The Girl from Hollywood

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

First published 1922

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Life on a Southern California ranch intersects with the nearby film colony as young people are pulled toward Hollywood’s opportunities and temptations. Drug trafficking, addiction, sexual exploitation and murder gradually break through the glamorous surface of the movie business.

Set during the silent-film era, the novel contrasts the promise of Hollywood with contemporary fears about narcotics, sexual exploitation and celebrity culture. Ranch life and the growing movie colony exist side by side, allowing Burroughs to move between family drama, crime and the darker consequences of the Prohibition-era entertainment business.